AI face drives patients to plastic surgery

What’s the Face/Off?I mean AI enhanced faces. It’s your dream face, a visage with no pimples or wrinkles, possessing gorgeous cheekbones, the perfect nose and jawline, and immaculate symmetry, whatever you desire.But now plastic surgeons say that they are increasingly being asked by patients to replicate them in real life.Some 15% of members of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) say they have met patients who show up for consultation appointments with AI beautified faces.1Facing reality?“We can improve and enhance features, but we cannot rewrite anatomy or guarantee a digitally perfect outcome,” BAAPS president Nora Nugent said.“The image can feel like a realistic representation of what patients could look like after surgery, but it may bear very little relation to what is anatomically or surgically possible.”Unlike traditional inspiration images, AI generated photographs can be particularly powerful because they depict the patient themselves—creating the impression that the digitally altered…